Horrific! Mass-murder, beheadings, pedophilia and genocide are not horrific. But an infidel nation state raiding the usual suspects who are planning to engage in these activities is “horrific”. And “our” ABC stooges can’t get enough of it. And how doesÂ Carnita Matthews come into this? Why, she is the wife, (or one of the wives) ofÂ Â Hamdi al Qudsi:Terror raids target family homes of convicted criminals

A man jailed for threatening to slit the throat of a Commonwealth official and another who allegedly helped six people travel to Syria are believed to be the alleged leaders of the group of young men targeted by police in Thursday’s Sydney raids, law enforcement sources say.

The Marsfield home where Milad Bin Ahmad-Shah Al-Ahmadzai, 24, lived before he was sent to prison for making the threat was among those raided on Thursday.

Ahmadzai, who has been under ASIO surveillance for four years, has also been convicted of stealing $100,000 during an ATM ram raid. Senior police sources have expressed concern money stolen from ATM raids has ended up being transferred to Syria to fund terrorism.

Born and bred in Sydney, Ahmadzai is associated with Bukhari House, a bookstore and prayer hall in Auburn and is believed to be passing on directives to the group from inside jail.

Another home raided on Thursday was that of Hamdi al Qudsi, the 39-year-old disability pensioner who police allege is running sophisticated, expensive and illegal schemes to send young Australian men to Syria to fight with terrorists.

Al Qudsi’s wifeÂ Carnita Matthews stirred controversy in 2010 when she refused to remove her burqa for police conducting a random breath test and pursued the matter in court.

Â A senior police source said Al Qudsi is also an associate of Mohammad Ali Baryalei, who is in the Middle East and who police allege is behind an Islamic State plot to murder Australians on video.

He is accused in court papers of conspiring with Guildford apprenticeÂ Omarjan Azari, 22, who on Thursday was arrested and charged with conspiring to plan or prepare a terrorist act, which police allege was intended to “shock, horrify and terrify the community”.

Mr Azari is one of two men charged following Thursday’s operation. A senior police source said more people would be charged after police had examined extensive evidence gathered in the raids.

The other man charged is a 24-year-old mechanic who was charged with firearms and ammunition offences when police raided his Merrylands house before dawn.

Speaking to Fairfax Media on Friday, the man said he was targeted because of people he had met through his business.

The man went to high school with another man whose home was targeted during the counter terrorism operation on Thursday.

He said police were targeting anyone of Islamic faith, not terrorists.